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This is an important and detailed (though not too detailed to become boring) report. Linch contents will already be well-known to you bu view of its freshness I suspect that there is ill some very useful information to be gleaned fruit. I therefore suggest that desk officers should »nd the assessments of their own countries - the numbers are marked against their names above - and also the introduction - pp 1-3, the section on S International Narcotics Control Organisation the general section on narcotics in South-Eastia pp 13-16 and, finally, pages 53-64.
pages 53-64. Mr Shake and Mr Hennessy may like to read the general and the more heavily lined parts of sections de ling with areas under their aegis.
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2. There is some revealing information not only on the corruption of several of the governments (f the area, but also on the confusion among the varions US institutions concerned with drug suppression. Nevertheless, I suppose that the most remarkably fact is the speed with which the Americans hav followed up President Nixon's directive of 17 de 1971. There is evidence that they may here t a somewhat bull-in-a-china-shop attitude to problem (viz the rather snide reference to the un- cooperative attitude of the Hong Kong authoris) but I am convinced that we should back them possible in most of South-East Asia where our n interests are far smaller than theirs.
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MR J Guest
South-East Asian Departe ant
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